#katniss

Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#mockingjay #peeta #plutarch #courage

Not like this. He wanted it to be real. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #love #marriage #peeta

Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #love

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #love #peeta #quote

Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you! ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-and-peeta #love

A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #peeta #katniss

I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of you sight that night," says Haymitch. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #katniss

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #self #suzanne-collins #katniss

Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them." "That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick #katniss #mockingjay #plutarch #wedding

Fire beats roses again. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#rose